Men, can’t live with them, pass the beer nuts
Two of my dear male friends, one older, one younger, have told me within the last two weeks that they’d rather play golf than have sex.
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Year: 2006
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Happy First Day of Hanukkah – and a quick history lesson
The story of Hanukkah is the story of religious freedom. In 168 BC King Antiochus the 4th, who inherited his kingdom from Alexander the Great, set up an idol in the Jewish temple and ordered Jews to worship it. He was a zealous Hellenist and wanted all people to follow Greek ways. A revolt led by Mattathias and his son Judah the Maccabee to overthrow Antiochus raged with the odds against the Jews; they were…
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David Duke is an idiot – in case you didn’t know that already
On Tuesday a conference was held in Tehran to join in a united cry to dismantle Israel and to descry the Holocaust saying it never happened – one high profile American in attendance, David Duke, railed against zionist terror and murder – amazes me that my brother hired this man to host his radio talk show years ago – the SF Chronicle said Jew hires Duke making me glad I took my husband’s last name…
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I said, I said.
I take it as a compliment that during my tenure at OTR some of the people in my group have referred to me as Jack Welch – not due to my corporate compensation package but rather the diverse landscape I have had to manage – from heavy equiipment to online advertising – but what I see as the similarity between Jack and myself is the coinage of “the naked truth” whereby Welch suggests the internet…
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The bigger they are the harder they fall
Julie Rhoem – who was a source I was cultivating at Chrysler got hired at Walmart and was soon dismissed for radical behavior according to them – it was a big scandal in the advertising community but the way I see it it is more of a scandal for Walmart who is losing share and revenue – know what I say? – good – I am not one of those bring the mighty down types…
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Eames chairs weren’t meant for long time sitting
Who picks Chicago as a central meeting point in December???, she asks from her hard plastic airport chair.
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Help wanted
Bartender at MSY has a crowd who is exhibiting panic when she says she is closing down – knows our flight is two hours past last call – her retort: New Orleans is operating at 50 percent capacity since Katrina – do you know someone who wants a job?
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Murphy’s got to die!
Tuesday, a day with no margin for error – I had to bring nine ceiling fans to the LaLa because the electrician decided he will come tomorrow and needs the fans – so went and got handtruck and as I was bringing the second load of them down and negotiating doors and elevators I said to myself, self, where is a man when you need one? and John appeared to hold the last door open.…
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Holiday travel – my least favorite
American called cancelling my flight and offering another that gets in after midnight after circumventing the planet. I booked United which was supposed to leave at 4 but now 6:30 but who really knows. Chicago, here I come, hopefully.
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Uncle Tom is at my house
M, the interior painter, who has had some brushes with the law lately and is ill-tempered or sweet depending on his level of toxicity – I gather – I don’t know for certain – started giving me the yessa massa routine today when I asked him to paint the ceiling before the electrician got there tomorrow to hang the fans. “It’s your house, mam,” he said. Yes, it is my house, I told him, and…